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Yeltsin Hospitalized With Flu,
Triggers Anxiety in Moscow

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Steve LiesmanStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 11, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

MOSCOW -- President Boris Yeltsin checked into the hospital with what his aides described as an "acute viral respiratory infection" in the wake of a cold, leaving Russians wondering once again about the long-term health of the 66-year-old leader.

Aides maintained the president's condition wasn't serious and that his planned 10-day sanitarium stay outside Moscow was mostly precautionary. "On the background of a cold, the president has developed some signs of a flu," Sergei Yastrazhembsky, the president's...